Miniature Wainscoting Tutorial

 Hello to all my mini friends!  OK.  I've never actually used the word wainscoting, only calling it a half wall in the loft.  But I was told it is actually called wainscoting.  So here we are.  lol

My loft needed a little something for the walls and I think the half wall turned out great!  I used chipboard, cardstock, a beaded necklace, sequins and a rhinestone for the center of each sequin just for detail.  In keeping with the theme of the building, I painted it black and used metallic brown to highlight the edges.  And as usual there are no measurements because I simply cut the pieces to fit the space.  

The inside front wall around the windowed door is done in all brick so I thought it would look good to add a little bit of exposed brick on the other two walls.  I feel that originally these two walls were brick and were plaster covered sometime over the years.

I don't have one of those fancy cutting machines.  I just use my exacto knife.

I glued the pieces to a piece of cardstock as I thought it would be too difficult to try and center each cut out on the wall itself.  And it'll be much easier to paint and then install.

Adding top and bottom trim pieces here.

This is where I added a little more detail.  I had an old, beaded necklace that was broken so I decided to use it as detail under the ledge.

After painting the wainscoting, I checked it for size in the loft before using joint compound 

on the walls.

And while writing this post I decided to show you my next pictures of the loft walls.  

This picture shows the walls before shadowing.  Also, I have had these floral napkins for years and have used them many times.  For this wall, instead of cutting around the flowers I just gently tore around the pieces to avoid napkin lines.  It worked rather well and the pieces simply blended into the paint.   

P.S.  I only used the top layer of the napkin.

I am in LOVE!! 

Thanks for following along in my loft journey!!

It sure is coming along!

XOXO ~Laurie